Re: CUPS

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 08:25:51AM +1000, Nick Edwards wrote:
> On 7/27/14, Walter Alejandro Iglesias <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> Only noticed this because just replaced our ubuntu print server with
>>> slackware (all other serves are slackware anyway so why not)  but for
>>> the life of me it wont print .conf files,
>>> sits there forever saying Idle - "Sending data to printer."  but it
>>> clearly is not
>>> hell the thing wont even print the test page "no profiles specified in
>>> PPD"
>>> even copied the types and convs files from  .../share/cups to
>>> /etc/cups, no difference.
>>>
>>
>> I am pretty sure that whatever your problem is it has nothing to do with
>> your prejudice about antiquated or modern software.
>>
>> It sounds to me that you chose the wrong driver or the driver you need
>> is not present in Slackware by default (Ubuntu, with its *friendly*
>> approach take care of that details for you).
>>
>
> Nope, the driver (from guttenprint) is correct, if I print a document
> from openoffice, it works perfect, I can even print an email from
> webmail in chrome,  but try anything else, like from text editors, or
> other softwares, nope, even a lp /etc/somefile.txt  lpr -l
> /etc/ntp.conf on the print server itself = no go, and again test pages
> dont from the print server, so I'm happy the driver is right, since it
> is a perfect match to my printer.

Just guessing, it's a usb printer?  Some udev rule?  (I hate udev :)).